Helen postulates that "inverted commas" was a printer's term. 'Fraid not. I was a printer for fifteen years and never ran across the term "professionally". I had a quick flick through my apprenticeship notes, which I still treasure, along with the paper's style book this morning, and although they are shown, they are not dignified with any term other than "quotes". Interestingly enough, "single quotation mark" is mentioned, as is apostrophe, but one is not shown as a synonym for the other.


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